Abandoned Cooling Tower

An abandoned cooling tower. Very post apocalyptic though not from a nuclear plant.

Steampunk Ruins

The ironworks in Völklingen (Germany) were closed in 1986 and became later a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The gigantic blast furnaces and Cowper stoves are rusting and became slowly covered by vegetation.




A real impressive site.

Fashion and Decay

In the Vogue Italy appeared in June 2007 this editorial by the famous fashion photographer Steven Meisel (maybe my favourite).



It shows different models in the scenery of abandoned and derelict industrial architecture. Meisel likes this morbid atmosphere. To me he seems sometimes as a modern version of Thomas Cole, a late romantic ruin lover.

Railway Tracks

Abandoned railway track in Spain near the Ebro Valley. You are passing old tunnels and viaducts through a mostly uninhabited landscape.




The photos were taken between Horta and Pinell de Brai.

Abandoned quarry in Menorca

The quarry was used for hundreds of years and closed in 1994. It’s really impressive to walk through the artificial canyons. It seems that the engines cut the stone like butter.